HARARE – Weather forecasters are warning that a blistering heat wave is starting to bake Zimbabwe and will continue until early next week. The Zimbabwe Meteorological Department says the high temperatures are expected to continue until Tuesday, affecting most low-lying areas such as Kariba, Beitbridge, Binga, Chiredzi, Triangle, Zvishavane that are expected to record up…
HARARE – Maxwell Zeb Shumba, one time advisor to Morgan Tsvangirai and now leader of the newly-formed political party — Zimbabwe First (ZimFirst) — believes the country stands at the cusp of having a new political leadership from the next elections but he is hoping to be a key player in the change of political…
HARARE – Two of the things that Zimbabwe’s political parties and their leaders have battled with over the past 35 years of the country’s independence are self introspection and taking responsibility when things go wrong. Indeed, in the parallel universe that our inept politicians appear to inhabit, blaming others, never confronting the real source of…
HARARE – Two of the things that Zimbabwe’s political parties and their leaders have battled with over the past 35 years of the country’s independence are self-introspection and taking responsibility when things go wrong. Indeed, in the parallel universe that our inept politicians appear to inhabit, blaming others, never confronting the real source of problems…
EDITOR — With the increase in people masquerading as law enforcement officers, police must identify themselves when asked to. It’s a matter of prudence and vigilance that the public should exercise. What is shocking, however, is that police officers are offended when asked to identify themselves. Just recently, a certain man in civilian clothes asked…
HARARE – Events in Zurich this past week should be a lesson to the Zimbabwe Football Association (Zifa) as it tries to move on after former president Cuthbert Dube’s reign. Fifa’s long-serving president Sepp Blatter was banned for 90 days from all football activities together with Uefa president Michel Platini. Fifa’s former secretary-general Jerome Valcke,…
HARARE – Last Wednesday’s edition of our sister paper — the Daily News — carried a story on a clash between a legislator and members of the public during a 2016 National Budget Consultative meeting. It was reported that members of the public were not too happy with the limited time they were allowed to…
HARARE – As the debate on who will succeed President Robert Mugabe if he finally vacates office continues, interesting scenarios have come out with two front-runners in First Lady Grace Mugabe and Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa while former Reserve Bank governor Gideon Gono is touted as a dark horse who may spring a surprise. Others,…
HARARE – Last week, I received a call from Goodson Nguni, a self-confessed loyalist of Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa. What was particularly bizarre was the salutation, “Hesi (Hie) Mutoda” that he used to address me. Politely, I asked him why he had chosen to address me like that and who was Mutoda. He quickly justified…
HARARE – Some of us have been involved in incidents, as journalists, which contained the elements of the bizarre as well as the frightening. We three happened to have landed well-paying jobs in the same foreign city. I was still in newspapers, but the two were not. In fact, they were in high-paying corporate jobs….
